22 November, 2016

Moscow says it will deploy its S-400 air missile defense
system along with Iskander ballistic missile in Russia's westernmost
region of Kaliningrad, near the border with the Baltic countries of
Lithuania and Poland and NATO member states.

"Russia sees the deployment of its missiles near
the western border as a response to Washington setting up a US
missile shield in Europe," Russia's RIA news agency quoted
Viktor Ozerov, the head of the defense committee in the Russian upper
house of parliament, as saying on Monday.

The S-400 missile system is Russia's most modern air
defense system. It can track some 300 targets and shoot down around
three dozen simultaneously over a range of several hundred
kilometers.

Kaliningrad is sandwiched between Lithuania from the
north and east and Poland from the south. The Baltic Sea is on the
region’s west.

Russia has deployed the systems to the region more than
once. Poland and Lithuania have expressed concern about the move.